“A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking and tugging at the downed game so frantically that the hunter gives up trying to calm him. It was the vision of a large steamship scaling a hill under its own steam, working its way up a steep slope in the jungle, while above this natural landscape, which shatters the weak and the strong with equal ferocity, soars the voice of Caruso, silencing all the pain and all the voices of the primeval forest and drowning out all birdsong.” (Werner Herzog in Conquest of the Useless)

David Fennessy’s trilogy Conquest of the Useless – based on Werner Herzog’s homonymous account of the making of the film Fitzcarraldo – premières on 4 March at the New Music Dublin festival.

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